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  • Lettering is a precise art and strictly subject to tradition. The 'New Art ' notion that you can make letters whatever shapes you like,is as foolish as the notion, if anyone has such a notion, that you can make houses any shapes you like. You can't, unless you live all by yourself on a desert island.

    Art   Islands   House  
  • The Long Island Sound is an environmentally unique estuary that needs to be protected.

    Unique   Islands   Long  
  • ...Started by missionaries in 1841, Punahou Academy had grown into a prestigious prep school, an incubator for island elites...It hadn't been easy to get me in, my grandparents told her (my mother); there was a long waiting list, and I was considered only because of the intervention of Gramps' boss, who was an alumnus (my first experience with affirmative action, it seems, had little to do with race).

    Mother   School   Islands  
  • There is more treasure in books than in all the pirates' loot on Treasure Island...

    "Peter's Quotations : Ideas for Our Time". Book by Laurence J. Peter, 1977.
  • When you sit, you've put a place on the island of the tonal for the possibility of your thoughts stopping for a short period of time.

  • I grew up in the Cayman Islands. I didn't play video games or watch TV. I would basically come home from school, throw down my backpack, grab my machete, and go hike and chop down trees to make a fort.

    Home   School   Islands  
    "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • I preferred to set off and perish in search of my own kind than to live a lonely half-life of physical comfort and spiritual death on this murderous island.

    Yann Martel (2012). “Life Of Pi, Illustrated”, p.401, Canongate Books
  • His mom lived in Long Island for ten years or so. God rest her soul. And, although, she's... wait... your mom's still... your mom's still alive. Your dad passed. God bless her soul.

    Mom   Dad   Crazy  
    "Only ABC Highlights Biden's Gaffe About 'Dead' Mother of Irish PM, Stephanopoulos Lauds VP's 'Smile'". www.newsbusters.org. March 18, 2010.
  • Islands are havens and breeding grounds for the unique and anomalous. They are natural laboratories of extravagant evolutionary experimentation.

    David Quammen (1996). “The Song of the Dodo: Island Biogeography in an Age of Extinctions”, Vintage
  • They can't hurt me. Sure, they can crush you and kill you. They can lay you out on 42nd and Broadway and put hoses on you and flush you in the sewers and put you on the subway and carry you out to Coney island and bury you on the Ferris wheel. But I refuse to sit here and worry about dying.

    Crush   Hurt   Islands  
    Bob Dylan (2005). “Bob Dylan: Inspirations”, p.67, Andrews McMeel Publishing
  • Our task force put to sea in early January 1942, to attack the Japanese in the Marshall and Gilbert islands, but the mission was called off on the eve of the attack.

    Islands   Sea   Tasks  
  • Fiordland, a vast tract of mountainous terrain that occupies the south-west corner of South Island, New Zealand, is one of the most astounding pieces of land anywhere on God's earth, and one's first impulse, standing on a cliff top surveying it all, is simply to burst into spontaneous applause.

    Nature   Islands   Pieces  
    Douglas Adams, Mark Carwardine (2011). “Last Chance to See”, p.120, Ballantine Books
  • People are hypocrites. If you ask them what they want to see on TV, they'll tell you they want better quality programming. And then what do they watch? 'Gilligan's Island.'

  • Most people spend their entire lives on a fantasy island called 'Someday I'll.'

    Denis Waitley (1988). “Being the best”, Pocket
  • Id like to live in the Greek islands

    Islands   Greek  
  • You're an island no matter what you do. I think it's very dangerous to use popularity as your identity in life. So you have to really know who you are inside, the core person, and follow what is true rather than follow what is hype.

    Thinking   Hype   Islands  
  • This is no war of chieftains or of princes, of dynasties or national ambition; it is a war of peoples and of causes. There are vast numbers, not only in this Island but in every land, who will render faithful service in this war, but whose names will never be known, whose deeds will never be recorded. This is a War of the Unknown Warriors

    War   Ambition   Names  
    Winston Churchill (1951). “War speeches”
  • I can't really believe that it's over. "I'll speak for her." Every face turns to where Sean Kendrick stands a little apart from the crowd, his arms crossed. "This island runs on courage, not blood," he says. His face is turned towards me, but his eyes are on Eaton and his groups. In the hush after he speaks, I can hear my heart thudding in my ears.

    Running   Believe   Eye  
  • When you're in [ Bahamas], it feels like a bunch of islands, with keys and things like that. It's an existential archipelago. It's funny, you try to escape who you are and where you're from, but it's always part of your social DNA.

    Islands   Keys   Dna  
    Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
  • A bird, music and food -desert island items

    Islands   Bird   Desert  
  • Better Than You island doesn't exist. And if it does it's full of idiots, looking over their shoulder for the next idiot to arrive.

    Islands   Doe   Next  
  • We are born for a higher destiny than that of earth; there is a realm where the rainbow never fades, where the stars will be spread before us like islands that slumber on the ocean, and where the beings that pass before us like shadows will stay in our presence forever.

    Death   Stars   Ocean  
  • If I was on an island, just for melody, I would take albums by the Stones, AC/DC and the Beach Boys' Smiley Smile.

    Beach   Boys   Islands  
  • The journey is long, the road is dark and frightening, but together we can reach our destination: the Tasmania of which we all dream, where all are welcome and all prosper, made no longer of lies but truth, built not of rich men's hate but our love for our island and for each other.

    Dream   Hate   Lying  
  • California is an island, and New York's an island. Maybe it's time for me to change islands.

  • I judge property myself by its net earning power; that is the only rule I have been able to get.... This whole island [Manhattan] was once bought for a few strings of beads. But now you will find this property valued by its earning power, by its rent power, and that is the way to value a railroad or telegraph.

    "Jay Gould: A Character Sketch" by William T. Stead, in The Review of Reviews. Testimony to the New York Senate Committee on Labor and Education, February 1893.
  • Sailing to an island unknown Failing to find your way home you walk under a sea leagues beneath us

    Home   Islands   Sea  
    Maggie Stiefvater (2011). “Linger”, p.320, Scholastic Inc.
  • Take what happened to me in Bali. I planned on going to Ubud, then met a man on an airplane who told me it was too touristy. He gave me an address on the other side of the island, which turned out to be a palace where I lived for four years.

    Airplane   Men   Islands  
  • It's the silence I imagine in the rest of the world, the silence of an endless ocean and uninhabitable island, a silence that can be seen from space.

    Ocean   Islands   Space  
    Lauren DeStefano (2014). “The Chemical Garden Series Books 1-3: Wither, Fever, Sever”, p.45, HarperCollins UK
  • If our knowledge is, as I believe, only an island in an infinite sea of ignorance, how can we in our short lifetime find satisfaction in exploring our little island? How can we persuade ourselves to be exhilarated by our meager knowledge and yet not be discouraged by the ocean vistas?

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